The plans vastly underestimated the amount of concrete, pipe and other materials needed. The construction of what would become the world’s largest coal gasification plant is more than 90 percent complete, but the project has run into numerous problems. The hearings will examine two broad issues: whether Duke committed fraud, concealed information from regulators or mismanaged the project and broader questions of whether Indiana needs the Edwardsport electricity, and the reasonableness of continuing with a plant some say has costly, unproven technology. It doesn’t put people’s fears at ease that this project was handled in a way that was fair.” “This whole project has been tainted by secrecy and lack of transparency,” said Julia Vaughn, policy director of Common Cause Indiana. Some open-government advocates say it’s time to shine a bright light on the entire matter. Now it will be up to the IURC, in hearings next week, to determine whether Duke should swallow nearly $1 billion in cost overruns, or pass part of them along to its 780,000 Indiana customers in the form of higher electricity bills. Pages 16-99 redacted,” the document says.ĭuke, already under a cloud of suspicion over its conduct with the IURC, has so far kept secret the most telling details of the plant’s history.

That information, also on file at the IURC, is hidden from the public. Then there’s a wide range of testimony and exhibits from an outside expert that purport to outline how Duke concealed vital material from regulators about the plant’s financial risks. Mitch Daniels as the utility was preparing to ask Indiana regulators to pass along hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns to customers.Ī summary of the meeting, written by a Duke vice president, also is completely redacted. Or maybe you’re curious about what Duke Chairman James Rogers discussed with Gov. “Privileged and Confidential,” the report says. The five-page report from March 2010, on file with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, is almost completely blacked out.

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